If anyone is interested, I will try to keep an on-going thread based on what we see with Bart and Vinnie's feet. These are real, born-in-the-wild Spanish mustangs, whose breeding hasn't been directed by humans in about 500 years. When I met Bart, he'd never had his feet trimmed, but they had them trimmed once about a month ago while the vet had him sedated for some other work.
Vinnie was born in the wild, but was taken into domesticity about 18 months ago, when he was a weanling. He's had his feet trimmed many times. Vinnie was in the first round of Corolla Banker horses brought in for adoption, but about 40 horses were adopted before him - I guess I was the first sucker to look past his small size and odd conformation to see a nischievious cutie pie with much curiosity and intelligence. Karen Thomas, NC
